Time Warner Buys Back Google’s 5% Stake in AOLPosted by Nathania Johnson Jul 29, 2009 When the Time Warner board voted in late May to spin off AOL, buying back Google’s 5% stake in the company would be a prerequisite for the sale. This week, Time Warner did just that. The return on investment, however, was not so hot. Google invested $1 billion in 2005 to …»Continue reading

When Bloggers Attack: Retaliation is Not the AnswerPosted by Nathania Johnson Jul 29, 2009 George Smith Jr. took to his blog to offer up a cautionary tale for both marketers and bloggers. He was recently at BlogHer representing Crocs (a footwear company), when one of the conference attendees walked up to him and struck up some small talk. Then she made clear she wanted …»Continue reading

hakia Unveils Commercial OntologyPosted by Nathania Johnson Jul 29, 2009 hakia is unveiling their new approach to the semantic web by introducing Commercial Ontology. Dr. Riza C Berkan, CEO, took to the official hakia blog to explain. Commercial Ontology is able to recognize phrases and terms as opposed to typical ontologies which Berkan says only look at one word. The word …»Continue reading

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Is this black hat?Jul 24, 2009 I had a consult with a SEO firm that from all appearances has a good reputation and made some good, clearly white hat suggestions. That said, one of their biggest suggestions was to pay them to act as a middle man to get “legit” bloggers to blog about my site and …»Join the discussion

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